PRESS PHOTOS BY LORI PATRICKABOVE: Musikfest opens its 41st year with Preview Night on the Wind Creek Steel Stage where rockers “Greta Van Fleet” performed to a sold out audience. The four-piece Michigan band is on their “Starcatcher” tour.

RIGHT: Hannah Wicklund is the first stage appearance for Musikfest 2024. Wicklund hails from Nashville and is a blues singer and guitarist. The Levitt Pavilion on the Southside of the festival and its Steel Stacks background are a perfect setting to kick off ArtsQuest’s largest event of the year.